collocated with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference
ISWC-2007
November 11, 2007:
BEXCO

Ontology matching
is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
since it takes the ontologies as input and determines
as output correspondences between the semantically
related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging,
query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

The workshop has two goals:

To bring together academic and industry leaders to assess how academic
advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial needs,
and therefore direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives
about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs.
Moreover, it is central to the aims of the workshop to evaluate how technologies
for ontology matching are going to evolve, which research topics are in the academic
agenda and how these can fit emerging business issues.

To conduct an extensive, rigorous and
transparent evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the
OAEI
(Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)
2007 campaign.
The particular focus of this year’s OAEI campaign is on real-world matching
tasks from specific domains, such as cultural heritage, medicine and food.
Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a
solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from both academia and industry
with its emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching.
On the one side, we expect representatives from industry to present business
cases and their requirements for ontology matching.
On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches
vis-a-vis those industrial requirements.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains;

Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios;

Social and collaborative ontology matching;

Interaction design for ontology matching;

Interactive ontology matching;

Background knowledge in ontology matching;

Uncertainty in ontology matching;

Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;

Performance of ontology matching techniques;

Ontology matching evaluation methodology;

Ontology matching for information integration;

Ontology matching for query answering;

Ontology matching for dynamic environments;

Systems and infrastructures.

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers addressing
different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2007 campaign.
Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the
LNCS Style.

These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
(no later than August 3, 2007)
through the workshop submission site at:

We appreciate support from the
KnowledgeWeb
European Network of Excellence (IST-2004-507482), the
OpenKnowledge
European STREP (FP6-027253) and the ASIA-Link
EASTWEB
project (Contract TH/Asia Link/010 (111084)).